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Trust in Trump’s Virus Response Is Falling. What Does It Mean for November?
Polls suggest that faith in the president to handle the outbreak has
slipped among some crucial voting blocs in the general election.
"Still, it is impossible to know how
things will play out between now and November, and Mr. Trump has plenty
of time to earn the trust of persuadable voters. Besides, the Electoral
College tends to favor Republican presidential candidates.
The Monmouth poll
released this week, o found Mr. Biden up on Mr. Trump by four points among
registered voters — a far slimmer lead than Hillary Clinton held in
comparable polls at this point in 2016n her way to a general-election
defeat."
Trump has earned no trust.
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Even some Republican officials, disagreeing with president, say that
vote-by-mail has not hurt the G.O.P. in elections.
Denying people a vote by mail option should be injurious to the Republican cause.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/09/opinion/wisconsin-primary-democracy.html
American Democracy May Be Dying
Authoritarian rule may be just around the corner.
"Donald Trump, as usual, said the quiet part out loud: If we expand early voting and voting by mail, “you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again.”"
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/opinion/coronavirus-economy.html
Will We Flunk Pandemic Economics?
Our government suffers from learned helplessness.
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New Trump Attack Ad Falsely Suggests Former Governor Is Chinese
The ad, which calls Joe Biden soft on China and includes an image of former
Gov. Gary Locke of Washington, an Asian-American, comes at a time of rising
xenophobia over the coronavirus.
Biological warfare is a true horror.
There has not been a biological attack in modern history.
Racism is a disease made in America.
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Barr Defends Trump’s Dismissal of Intelligence Watchdog
The president’s political enemies could face prosecution, Attorney General
William P. Barr said in an interview on Fox News.
William P. Barr is in violation of his oath of office again.
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Virus Throws Millions More Out of Work, and Washington Struggles to Keep Pace
Federal efforts to keep businesses operating and workers employed have so
far failed to stop the bleeding as the coronavirus tears through the
economy in devastating ways.
https://twitter.com/ewarren/status/1248386512456003586
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/04/10/cities-states-coronavirus-budgets/
https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/04/10/business/10reuters-health-coronavirus-usa-unemployment.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/04/09/66-million-americans-filed-unemployed-last-week-bringing-pandemic-total-over-17-million/
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Inside Wisconsin’s Election Mess: Thousands of Missing or Nullified Ballots
As Wisconsin scrambled to expand voting by mail for its election on
Tuesday, many absentee voters said their ballots went undelivered.
"In Wisconsin, the missing votes could also portend a long legal battle
over the results; one race on Tuesday’s ballot was a hotly contested
State Supreme Court seat that, in a normal election, was expected to be
extremely close. The margin in the state’s 2019 Supreme Court race was
about 6,000 votes."
The Republicans had a state supreme court to elect.
The Republican primary had no "coat tails".
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Trump Keeps Talking. Some Republicans Don’t Like What They’re Hearing.
Aides and allies increasingly believe the president’s daily briefings are
hurting him more than helping, and are urging him to let his medical
experts take center stage.
Andrew Cuomo has the "high ground".
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Iowa Was Meaningless
We spent a lot of time covering the candidates’ ups and downs in Iowa.
Almost none of it mattered.
Iowa introduced the potential candidates to the larger public.
That mattered.
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U.S. Intelligence Contractors Say Virus Relief Funding Rules Fall Short
Contractors complain that guidelines released by the intelligence community
are much stricter than the Pentagon’s — and it’s not always clear which set
applies.
Mercenaries are a bad idea.
The intelligence community should be part of "the deep state".
Their business is knowing the rest of the world.
Some must go and find out.
The "cowboys" belong to the military and have defined tasks.
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With a Face Mask Photo, Melania Trump Highlights Her Husband’s Reluctance to Wear One
The first lady’s encouragement of Americans to wear face masks was all the
more striking because it contrasted with her husband’s mixed messages on
the subject: “I don’t see it for myself,” President Trump has said.
Melania and Donald have a strained relationship.
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Enlisted Late, Online Lenders Still Must Wait to Help Speed Up Stimulus
The government wants to get loans to small businesses fast. But the lenders
with the most experience with this have been unable to take part.
A Republican ideal is incapable government.
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In Ohio, the Amish Take On the Coronavirus
A famously traditional community has mobilized to help hospitals with
medical supplies, even as it struggles with reconciling its communal way of
life with the dictates of social distancing.
The Amish are a self isolated community.
For now they can trust their neighbors.
The crafts remain strong there.
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Coronavirus Is Threatening One of Government’s Steadiest Services: The Mail
The Postal Service needs billions, the agency told Congress, and Democrats
want to provide a bailout. The Trump administration may not agree.
The Republican party has feared the U.S. mail for decades.
Democratic Congressmen used it to communicate directly with their constituents. It does not pass through the mass media.
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Latest Question for Supreme Court: How to Rule on a Crowded Docket During a Pandemic
The question confronts Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. with choices that
will invariably be seen as political.
The ordinary business of The Supreme Court is suspended.
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Biden, Seeking Democratic Unity, Reaches Left Toward Sanders’s Ideas
Looking to appeal to Bernie Sanders’s supporters, Joe Biden announced
proposals to lower the eligibility age for Medicare to 60 and to expand
student debt forgiveness programs.
Sanders stepped aside. These issues are Part of the deal.
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Coronavirus Is Threatening One of Government’s Most Ubiquitous Services: The Mail.
The Postal Service needs billions to continue funding its operations and
make other payments, the agency told lawmakers.
The postal service is demanded by the constitution.
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Trump Administration Monitors Coronavirus Sentiments
A presentation obtained by The New York Times shows that the Department of
Health and Human Services’ emergency response office is monitoring public
sentiment around the coronavirus.
Restarting the economy soon would be a disaster.
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It’s Biden’s World
Biden was one of the key architects of the bankrupty bill, which made it
impossible to declare bankruptcy on student loans. The result of the
bankruptcy bill is that millenials and zoomers who went to university and
don’t have rich parents can’t own a house and many have decided they can’t
afford families. They expect […]
Biden will change or Biden will serve only one term.
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Small-Business Aid Stalls in Senate as Democrats Demand More Funds
Democrats objected to an emergency infusion of $250 billion for
small-business loans without more help for hospitals, states and cities.
Republicans refused.
$250,000,000 will not begin to fix the problem.
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April 9th US Covid Data
https://www.ianwelsh.net/april-10th-us-covid-data/
There is not enough testing to know what the numbers are.
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